The Sun. — London, England, 1838-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty honoured the Duke and Duchess of Suther land with her company 3esterday at the ceremony of the christening of their infant daughter. Her Majesty left the New Palace soon after three o'clock, accompanied by the Princess Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Barham. Her Majesty's suite followed in two of the Royal carriages, and included the Hon. Mies Pitt, Baroness Lehzcn, Marquis of Oonyngliam, Earl of Fingal, and Colonel Buckley. The Queen took an airing in the Parks yesterday afternoon in an open barouche and four, with outriders. The Princess Hohenlohe, and the Hon. Miss Pitt, maid of honour in wait ing, accompanied her Majesty. Colonel Buckley, equerry in waiting, attended her Majesty on horseback. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at the New Palace. There were present his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, attended by the Marquis of Berenger and Count de Bearn, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Louisa Jenkin son, Lady Mary Talbot, Lady Anne Fitzwilliam, Lady Mary Grimston, Lady Caroline Lennox, Lady Adelaide Paget, Lady Fanny Cowper, Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, the Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Conyngham, Earl of Ilchester, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards attended during the evening at the Palace. SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE. THE HIPPODROME RACES. A bye-day's sport was got up yesterday for the especial amusement of the " Illustrious Foreigners" now sojourning in the " great metropolis." It proved tolerably attractive to the public, but the expected visitors did not " show, the fancy fair having proved too much for their " philosophy." The following is a return of the racing : Tho Embassy Stakes (Handicap) of 5 sons. each. Heats, the Mile Course. Col. Baresus de Sontes na. g. g. Jim Crow, 4 yrs, Bst. 51b 0 1 1 Earl of Uxbridge na. ch. g. Sir Felix, 6 yes, Bst. 121 b. 2 2 2 Duke D'Ossuna na. ch. g. Edward, 6 yrs, 9,t. 51b 3 0 3 Prince N. Esterhazy na. be. h. Reform, aged, Bst 1 3 4 Mr. J. G roves na . c h. m . R ose b u d, 5 yrs , Set— ...... Mr. Falconer na. eh. m. Lady Elizabeth, Bst Earl of Chesterfield na. br. g. Omen, aged, Sat 0 0 dr The first heat was finely contested, and the others won cleverly. Match, 50 sons., 9st. each. Nlile Course.—Mr. Smith's b. g. Chance (Owner), beat Sir. Macdonald's b. g. Young Logic easy. The Diplomatic Stakes ( Handicap) of 5 sons. each. Heats, once round and a distance. About two miles. Earl of Wilton na. br. g. The Unknown, 6 yrs, Bst. 71b Sly 1 1 Duke of Beaufort na. br. g. Pumpkin, aged, 9st. 21b ...... 2 2. Prince N. Esterhazy na. br. g. Omen, aged, ist. 121 b 3 dr Mr. Baker na. b. m. Bucella, 3 yrs, a feather 4 dr .Mr. Villiers na. b. g. Subaltern, 4 yrs, Bst 5 dr The first heat won cleverly, and the second by half a length. Omen came in short of weight. The Olympic Stakes, free for any horse carrying 12. t. Half-bred horses allowed 10ibs. A winner of any Steeple-chase or Hurdle Race in 1838, 7lbs ; of two, 101bs ; of three, 141bs. extra. Horses having started for, and not having won any race as above, allowed 3lbs ; twice, 51bs ; thrice, 7lbs. Heats, once round and a distance, with three furze fence hurdles in each heat. Mr. Matthews's Vandyke Mr. Barker's ch. g. True Blue, aged Air. Stuckfield's b. m. The Duchess, aged Air. Oliver's ch. g. Herald 5 4 Mr. Webb's ch. g. Buffalo, aged Won easy. The stakes are claimed by Sir. Barker on the ground that Vandyke was not in proper time. IPSWICH RACES, TURSDAY. Her Majesty's Purse of 100 guineas. Heats, two miles. Lord Exeter's b. h. Troilus, 4 yrs G. Edwards 1 1 Lord Stradbroke's b. c. 13eggarman, 3 yrs Mr. Coleman's b. h. Calmuck, 5 yrs ... 3 dr Won easy. The County Members' Plate of 50 sovs. ; three yrs, ist ; four yrs, Bst. 41b ; five.yrs, Bst. 121 b • six yrs and aged, 9st. 51b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b., an d half-bred horses 71b. The winner of the Queen's Plate lOib. extra; winners once this year (matches and handicaps excepted ), 31b ; twice, 31b ; and thrice, 71b. extra. The winner to be sold for 300 soya., if demanded, &c. Heats, two miles. Mr. Bleak's bl. h. Bristolian, 3 yrs Boyce 1 1 Sir. Coleman's b. h. Calmuck, 5 yrs 2 2 Slr. Jolly's b. m. Rent,3 yrs A well contested race. Sweepstakes of 3 soya. each, with a Purse added, for hunters. Two _ mile heats. 31r. Pearce's gr. g. Dwarf, aged . .... . West 1 1 Alr. Sadler's b. g. Creeper, aged 2 2 Won easy. Cobham is declared not to start for the Goodwood Cup. Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, left town yes terday in a carriage and four, for the Queen's Lodge in Bushy Park, Where her Majesty and suite lunched, and returned in the evening to Marlborough House to dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will give a grand ball on Friday, the 12th instant, at Cambridge House, to a large Aiarty. to have the honour of meeting her Majesty. _ . . His Serene Highness Prince Christian of Holstein Cla.-Asbourg, had an interview with Prince George of Cambridge yes terday afternoon, at Cambridge House. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Sfarehioness of Salisbury with their company on Tuesday evening. The Privy Council appointed to be held yesterday at Cie New Palace was postponed until this afternoon. At the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Tuesday, Mr. Purton Cooper, Q. C., and Dr. Lushington, were heard in an sypeal from the 'lsland of St. Lucia. Their Lordships at the rising adjourned the matter to Friday. Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Ilosaoquet, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, sat yesterday in the Council Chamber to hear a petition praying for an extension of Stafford's patent for coaches. e Their Lordships granted the application for the term of se,: en years. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting, The S%%%dish Ambassador transacted business yes terday afternoon at the Foreign Office. The Lord Advoczite of Scotland, Mr. How, and Mr. Crane, had interviews with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Office. Mr. Mervcn Archdale has paired off with Mr. Walker (Wexford County) for the remainder of the session. The King of Prussia was expected at Toplitz on the lit of July, Prince William on the 2d. The Emperor of Russia was not to be there before the 16th. The Princess of Orange is expected in the course of July. The Prince de Join vile is stated by the New York ;Papers to have accepted the invitation of the French residents in that 'city to honour with his presence a splendid banquet, which they propose thing to his Royal Highness, and which was expected to take place on the 19th ult. A similar invitation had been sent from Philadelphia, but this The Prince had been obliged. to decline. The Duchess of Buccleuch's morning party is post poned till Friday, the 6th instant. „ • The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have issued Cards of invitation for a dejeune, upon a grand scale, at their delightful "at, Wi vbledon, on Friday, the 20th inst., to meet the Royal Family and the A. - abassadors Extraordinary, Mr:P cmlett Thomson has been confined to his house in South Audi:vy.street since Thursday'lLst by indisposition. HIS Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours dined With her Majesty lost evening, at the Palace, and afterwards went to Almackr.. The Du:ce left town this morning, at ten o'clock, for Wool .wielt. His Royal Highness was visited yesterday, at Grillon's Hotel, o3' the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis of Bristol, Duke de Stackpoole, Lord Bloomfield, Lord Cranstoun, Lady Augusta Somerset, Viscount Ltsmore, Earl and Countess of Falmouth, Earl Moray, Earl Cowper, &c, His Excellency Count Strogonoff gave a sumptuous banquet last e 1.% ning, at his mansion, on Carlton House-terrace. The Party included in:s Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, attended by Lord John C'surchill ; their Excellencies Prince Putbus, Prince Sch warzenburg,, the' Marquis de Bignoles, Baron de Capellen, Count L awenheilm, ars/ Count Alten ; the Duke of Sutherland, Duke of Norfolk, Marquis c f No•manby, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Minto, Lirl of Albemarte, Earl of Lichfield, Lord Howick, Lord Palmerston, Count Sebastiani, Right Hon. Puulett Thomson, Count Ludolf, Baron tulow, Count Pion° di Berg°, &c. Covers were laid for thirty-four. The Coumtess of Camperdown and Lady Elizabeth ritulas's nam 5s were omitted as being present at the Queen's Ball on Monday evening. Lord Camperdown was prevented attending by in ;fiarnmation in ids eyes, which has corralled him to 'tha house since the Coronation. The names of Lord and Lady Poltimore were %ratted, by mists ke, as being present at her Majesty's Ball on Monday Sir W. and Lady Middleton received at dinner, on Vaesd a y last, Lord and Lady Willoughby de Broke, the Earl of Scar_ 4 rough, Lady Charlotte? St. Maur, the Hon. C. and Mrs. Gray, Mr. u_ashwood, Sir G. and Lady Egerton, and Captain and the Hon. Mrs. lea. Sir Benjamin Hall and Mr. Lcader wcro shut out stn the diviskOn on Mr. Plumptre's Bill, A • g entleman has made a wager that he will appear ~" a Mon L 'ay at the Opera in Paris, o on the Tuesday at the Opera in Lon. ' c 'at en the. Wednesday at the pera in Brussels, and on the Thursday seats Morsel f at _table, at six o'clock precisely, at the Cafe de Paris. It . , teveral the. sand pounds are . already depending on the event of this ost extrac 'e - dinary undertaking. The British Queen, the largest steamer in the world, arrived in the Clyde, to have her engines fitted up by Mr. Napier. The Gulliver steamer has been despatched to Toward Point to tug he r up to Port Glasgow, where we have no doubt thousands frsrn Glasgow '" ill go to see her.—Giasgote Chronicle. The , atet rvo li t • ,eirtim.. .. an magistrates have had the (Treater portion of tl upon this week in hearing complaint '' , and in flicting persti 'tics ackney coachmen, for demanding more than their fares era the day of the the magi„trat Coronation. In a case of this kind, which vameb:fore : ved that persons at Bow street yesterday afternoon, Mr. • Twy ford oboe! from one Partons whose business rendered it necessary for trot them to go Ix red upor i , b e ;wise it har.i, of the town to another were not to be im_ rnov e t d . to be the day of bar Maj:sty's Corona. tio r , and a pro , Baron was A fine stn rgeoll :Ine h e s in l a e i n ,h th of , moving rough the streets. hs. weight, and measuring eight ~ r e t seven , T was taken on Monday last in the ~,I,°Yle, . about eigl'it miles - I ,•°Yecl by tins leset co of the Irish 80 . 0 ;donderry, by the fishermen cm -IT W. -Gurnersall, the superintendent of Fishings. It was forwarded ; awl s.:Esq., the socit'ty's secretary, nt of the fisheries, to John E. next banquet day, to be presented to her "L'tleity - 0 and ptobably graced the Me 'm3Y , of the coronation..—London derr i_ue_t at Buckingham Palace cn ,SCOCt says of the results o f iglis' 'incl. early reading—" My -memosofwas hits one of the lar g , Y events ' sht °ld fa • .oftho * arks' ver y difficult to load well - fashioned stone cannons 4I discharge, but making '. .3:Powr riot effect, when by good chance ariyVobject came within range , of his shot." SILENCE.—Zeno, of all Virtues, „ , - ~- Aue I • lis choice of taltmee ; tt f or by it," men's said he, " I hear other imperfections, and eninceai my own." favourite FA.I RI, 0 P F Th'igA I R.— 0 the shorn Place of annual ' et ort, which originated in the f re q uent visits of Daniel Day, an eeCen. t. • It blockmaker, to the forest of Hainaul f t, re w m il l ,4 is festivities prov able f h Co ' l e e s, one measure of Its usual company. ina tion and the sp'endid fair a t Hyde Park havin g , in s om e measure, t- Lila •isted the s piri is and in many instances the pockets of the Cockneys. I he 1 dockmakers of Wapping, howeve r, have fitted up th eir amphibious Z , e ')lt :le to t ran smit them to the favourite sp ot, and appear determin ed to ''k‘ 't their " =swot" on the road. LITERATURE A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BRI. TISH EMPIRE, 6-c. By J. R. M'CULLOCH, Esq. Sccond Edition Corrected and Enlarged. Mr. M'Culloch, as!isted by numerous cont►ibutors, produced about eighteen months ago a complete and very useful statistical account of the empire. This work is now publishing in monthly parts, the third of which Las just appeared. We need say nothing to recommend such a work. The reputation of the author of " The Commer_ cial Dictionary " is too well established ; his accuracy and his diligence are too well known to require any praise from us. The Statistical Account will be placed, we believe, in every library, as an indispensable book of reference, while many of its details are very amusing. THE JOURKIL OF THE STATISTIC4LL SOCIETY. No. ILL This Journal contains a number of useful and interesting papers ; and from one of them our readers will be sur prised to learn that disease of the heart, of which we scarcely ever heard till within these 20 years, is, on the whole, more frequent than consumption, in the ratio of 36 to 24, but in early life the victims of consumption are more numerous than those of the disease of the heart in the proportion of 45 to 21, Therq is also a curious paper in this Journal:on emigration, from which it results that from 182.5 to 1837 inclusive the total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom was 694,969, and of then no less than 663,388 went to the continent of North America. That immense number which is lost in those vast wil dernesses is not missed here, and, indeed, it is %; ell known that the population of our own country is increased by emigration. Those who go away provide work for those who remain at home, and enable them to rear families. The Statistical Journal is very neatly got up, and abounds in curious facts similar to those we have quoted. THE WOMAN OF THE WORLD. 3 Trots, Colb:an, London, 1833. The " Woman of the World" is a light, sketchy, amusing novel, in which characters are hinted at, rather than developed ; while the incidents for the most part have nature and probability to recommend them, and follow each other in appropriate sequence. There is too much how ever of fashionable life in the tale. We have Lords and roues in abundance—personages who in half the high life novels we have ever had the ill luck to peruse, are mere sickly impertinences—things made up of arrogance, slang, and the intensest vulgarity. Lord Shropshire, with whom the authoress of the volumes before us has evidently taken some pains, is a very fair specimen of a heartless, twad dling aristocrat, though we think the utter insignificance and absurdity of the man's nature is somewhat too highly coloured. The opening of the story is the most interesting portion, as it describes a happy, modest family circle, at Helmsley Abbey, in the same earnest, heartfelt, and unaf fected style that Miss Austen would have adopted. The death of the Baronet's lady is very affectingly told, and does honour to the writer's feelings. The scenes on the continent—especially those at Naples—are less to our taste, though we doubt not that they will meet with many drawing-room admirers. We decline entering into any analysis of the plot, as we would not mar our readers' en tertainment by prematurely unravelling its mysteries. We may say however that, though complicated, it is evolved with much skill. FORMATION OF A WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION IN ABERDEEN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Notices to the following effect were extensively circulated amongst the working classes of Aberdeen last week " That the intended demonstration in favour of Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, No Property Qualification for Mem bers, &c., as contained in the People's Charter,' lately drawn up by the Committee of the London Wor'x'ing Men's Association, assisted by six Members of Parliament, is un avoidably postponed, in consequence of having been refused liberty to meet on the Breadhill. In the meantime a meeting will be held in Mr. Melvin's Hall, on Thursday next, for the establishment of a Working Association." On Thursday last, the 28th of Jane, a most numerous and interesting meeting of the working classes took place in Mr. Melvin's Hall, when resolutions for the establishment of a Working Men's Association, on similar principles with the London Association, were unanimously adopted. A Corn mittee, composed of the most intelligent and influential of the working classes, was appointed to carry the objects into effect. The Address of the London Association on being read elicited loud and universal bursts of applause. Mr. A. Young, from his tone and manner in reading, produced an excellent effect. Mr. M` Dowell gave an excellent speech, descriptive cf the present condition of the working classes in consequence of the inadequate remuneration they receive for their labour. He showed by a statistical account of the average wages of work ing men, that they were far short , of supplying the absolute necessaries of life. He traced the source of this evil to bad government, which not content with this labour-depreciating system, imposes mischievous restrictions on trade, and almost interdict the circulation of the greatest blessings of a bountiful Providence. The proceedings of this meeting reflect great credit on the working classes of Aberdeen. -4••••411•Mf • MARSHAL SOULT AND THE LIONS OF LONDON. The gallant old Marshal has not been an idle man during his diplomatic visit to London. The time be could spare from his professional duties he has devoted to an examination of the many striking objects that arrest a stranger's attention in this great metropolis. fle has not visited the brilliant and the ornamental alone, but he has inquired into the solid and useful, and, from what we can learn, has expressed himself much gratified with the results of his domestic tour. The,fol lowing is a little diary of his progress in the City, from which our readers will see that Marshal Soult has made pretty good use of his time. On Monday, the 27th, the Marshal and suite, attended by Mr. Manby, visited St. Paul's, the London Ducks, and the Thames Tunnel. He was much affected on seeing the monu ment to General Moore in the Cathedral, as he himself had taken care to erect a similar tribute to that great man's me mory on the ground where he fell at Corunna. The Marshal observed to those about him that it was on the field of battle that he learned to respect and admire that distinguished officer. He grieved for Moore as a brother and a friend, and rejoiced to find that the country in whose defence he died had not been ungrrteful to his fame. At the London Docks the Marshal was struck not only with the perfect organization of the system observed, but also with the immense value of the articles in bond in the warehouses, and observed, " That he never had until now understood the real power of England, but now he perceived her force com merciale to be irresistible." He inspected the Tunnel very minutely, and received from Mr. Brunel every explanation as to the progress of the work, and the difficulties he has overcome. On Sunday the Marshal, accompanied by the Marquis Dal matia and the Marquis de Mornay, visited the Zoological Gar deny, through which they were attended by General Upton and Mr. Manby. On Monday the Marshal and suite, attended by Mr. Manby, inspected the machinery depart men t an d th e gene ra l arrange ments of the Bank of England. He wag touch gratified by the polite attention of Mr. Curtis, the Governor. He after wards went over Messrs. Barclay and Perkins's brewery, ac companied by several of the partners, who gave him full par ticulars of their establishment. The Marshal seemed much surprised at the extent of the buildings and the gigantic scale of such an undertaking, upheld by a few private On Tuesday, Marshal Seult and his suite, attended by Mr. Manby, visited the East India House, and inspected the curio sities of the archives and museu'V of the Honourable Company. He was received by the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and many or the Directors, who attended to welcome the Marshal, and do the honours of the establishment. On the same day, in order to show his sense of the recep tion he experienced in London, he called upon the Lord Mayor at the Mansion- House, and, after a short visit, was conducted by•him over the State apartments, and he then remained to witness the exa:nination of some cases in the Mansion !louse court, the proceedings being translated arid explained to him by Mr. Manby. His Excellency appeared much interested in the proceedings, and caused the particulars of each case to be fully explained to him.' Marshal Soult proceeded from the Mansion House to the Guildhall, where Sir C. Hunter and the other members of the Committee for the approaching fele,- were assembled. They received his Excellency in due form, and expreand their hole s that they should be favoured with his company in the City ;he replied that he should always have much pleasure in meeting th e m, and in fact, addict he, " England and France must, for the future, meet face to face only at table, and be hand in hand on all future occasions." The GJldsmith's Company having sent a very polite invite ton requesting to be honoured with the Marshal's presence to meet the Prince de Ligne, and see the apartments of their noble Hall, his Excellency acquiesced, and was received by R. Twining, Esq., the Prime Warden, and the Com t of the Com pany ; he was escorted by them over the apartments, where all toe valuable gold plate was displayed. and then sat down to an elegant cold collation, at which the Pi i rte Warden proposed the healths of the distinguished visitors, and his Excellency, through the medium of Mr. Manby, returned thanks, and pro. posed the health of the Prime Warden. Mr. Manby, by Mar shall Soult's dezire, expressed bin admiration of the splendid use made by the Cornp soy of its revenues, in relieving the wants of their fellow. creatures. The Marsleil left the City deli,e,hted with all he ha I salt nessed withiu its precincts, and he expressed himself highly gratified by the attention shown him by so many public bodies, and took occasion at the same time to acknowledge theliand- some reception lie had generally rria with from all classes since his arrival in this country. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1835. MEETING OF THE CROYDON RE- FORM REGISTRATION SOCIETY. Yesterday a very numerous meeting of the Croydon Reform Registration Spciety, and th e Liberal elect o r s o f r East Surrey took place at Croydon. WILLIAM LEVESON Gowan, Esq., took the Chair. Mr. O'Connell arrived soon after the dinner had commenced, and was received in the most enthusiastic manner. After the usual loyal toasts, The CHAIR:I,IAS gave " Lord Melbourne an I her Majesty's Ministers." They (the Reformers), w ben they looked at what the Government had done, should recollect the obstacles they had to encounter, and the difficulties they had to contend with —and great allowance should be made for them.—The toast was drank with great applause. Mr. HARDY proposed the health of the Earl of Lovelace and the Liberal noblemen of the House of Peers. Many gentlemen might not know who the Earl of Lovelace was, but they all knew Lord King, and that nobleman had by the especial favour of her Majesty been raised to the dignity of an Earl of the United Kingdom. It was gratifying to see that there was some portion of that House, which might almost be termed the House of Obstructives, still favourable to liberal principles. The three Premier Dukes were all friends to li- beral principles. He hoped to see a change effected in the conduct of that House, and that they would no longer set themselves in opposition to the wishes of the people. It was disgusting to hear the fuss that was made about the Church being in danger, when every one knew that when a parson called out the Church was in danger, he meant that his tithes were in danger. It was the fox-hunting parson who hal bought his living, that cried out about the the Church being in danger. He hoped they should soon show such persons that the Church was really in danger. Ile concluded by pro posing " The Earl of Lovelace, and the liberal Me:nbers of the House of Lords." The CHAIRMAN next proposed "the health of Mr. O'Con nell, and justice to Ireland."—(Tremendous cheering.) Mr. O'CONNELL then rose, and was received with the ut most enthusiasm. He had voted for every question when liberty was concerned. He, therefore, bad some right to ex pect that they should assist him in gaining justice for his coun try. Ho wished his country to become a portion of theirs. He wanted to belong in reality to their glorious nation. He wanted to see a real union, and not a parchment union. He wanted to have as much liberty for his country as the English people enjoyed—he did not expect more. . The Session had passed away, and nothing had been done. He hoped before long to see the unconstitutional duration of the Parliament shortened. The Tories were appealing to the prejudices and the bigotry of the people to further their views. No good in his opinion could be done without the honest Ballot. The Tories now consented to give his country Municipal Reform, but they saddled it with such a high qualification that it was virtually of no use.—( Hear, bear, hear.) He had advocated a repeal of the Union, hut he had given that up, and he now sought to make the Union a real union, and that it should be based upon adamant. He did not de. spair of success for the Government ; but if that failed, still he did nut despair. Seven millions of men could not be made slaves. He threw not this out as a menace, but he stated the fact as an honest man should speak to honest men.—( Hear, hear.) Not only were the great mass of the people in favour of Justice to his unfortunate country, but there was a being upon the throne, unsophisticated, unprejudiced, and unbigoted— who, under the guidance of her excellent mother, had ever been the friend of liberty, and who. he was sure, would do justice to his unfortunate country. If they loved and wished to support the Queen—down with the Tories. If they loved their Constitution—down with Cie Tories. Mr. O'Connell concluded by ir;forming the meeting that the Government had within the week offered him a lucrative appointment, but he refused to accept it, and preferred to be an agitator for the benefit of his country. lie soon afterwards retired, informing the meeting that he was anxious to be present at the discus sion that was to take place in the House of Commons, upon the Sabbath Observance Bill. Several other gentlemen afterwards addressed the meeting, and the festivities continued until a late hour. • (ADVERTISEMENT. TO the READERS of the " NORTHERN STAR," AND TO THE WORKING MEN OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. . London, July 3, 1838. FELLOW -COUNTRYMEN,-At the " Festival" here, to cele brate the arrival of " th e D orc h ester Labourers, " I felt it my duty to speak of The Sun Evening Newspaper, as it seemed to me to deserve. The week following, my conduct rota; severely censured in a leading article in the Northern Star. I at once.bruplied, and, week after week, have been most anxiously looking for, and expecting the insertion of my letter. Last Saturday—that is, ten weeks after being sent—the letter appeared. Here it is, and I respectfully rec i uest your atten tion to this my defence, of having ventured to say a word in favour of-(as a vehicle of communication) the only Daily Paper, now publishing, that will insert any communication whatever, either explanatory or justificatory, of working men, without payment. The delay that has occurred at the Northern Star Office is my only reason for resorting to this method of addressing you. I am, Fellow Countrymen, Your obliged obedient servant, JOHN CLEAVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR. 1, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, London. April 24,1838. Dcar Sir__l find by the Northern Star of Saturday last, that you have been pleased to " censure the encomium of Mr. Cleave upon the Whig Sun newspaper." This in commenting on the Dorchester procession of fhe previous Monday. Surely, Sir, when you undertook to thus question my conduct, you ought to have allowed your readers to judge of what that conduct had really been. Where is the encomium ? Or how is it that in holding me up to the myriads of the North, as having done that which I ought not to do, you did not allow a little space to at least some of the words I uttered on that occasion ; however, let that pass. When the True Sun was incorporated with The Sun, the " Working Men's Association" appointed three persons to wait on the Proprietor of- The Sun, to ascertain if he would con tinue to afford the seme facilities for publishing addresses or communicaticns from organized bodies of the Working Men, as had been afforded by the True Sun. 1 was one of that deputation ; we were perfectly satisfied with our reception, and highly gratified with the assurance we received that so long as we needed the columns of a daily paper, The Sun should be open to us ; and that faith has been kept—let the paper testify. Why, Sir, the delegates from Glasgow, on behalf of the " cotton-spinners," can testify to the readiness with which Mr. Young attended to every suggestion made in respect to the report of the great meeting held in the " Mecha nics' Institute" here, on behalf of the " Scotch patriots." In deed, on every occasion when publicity has been needed, there has not been the least shrinking from the promise made. Then, Sir, came the Dorchester procession, during the week pre vious to which the whole of the daily press were belching forth the . r condemnation of all the parties who were labour ing to give effect to the entrance of their persecuted friends into the metropolis. I mistake, there was an exception, that was The Sun: it published entire the programme ; and more, its Editor cheered on the Dorchester Com mittee, and asserted the propriety of the course marked, with the certainty of every man who joined in the ranks conducting himself s a u s noft published becamee Trades occasion.ltreadaessCom binationo so ns as T e This c s : was no " small favour"—nor are others whi c h m i ght be pointed out " sm all favours." I might, f or i nstance, b h u l have nel whichnz tt a e m z dhua.siTii praise et Address Thewas given for the j us ti ce d one as an organ fear, appeared yet i n any provincial paper, not even in the Northern Star. Now. Sir, th ose who heard the "enc o mium" that has given you o ff ence, heard sae st a t e , that my of communication, and not as the "Whig Sun." This was made distinct enough, and, as such, I feel myself fully justi fiedword that I uttered.—Yours truly, JOHN CLEAVE. in every RayAL INFIRMARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAR.A grand Coronation Fete and Breakfast we re g i ven yesterday, in aid of the funds of this meritorious institution, in the gardens of Mr. Jenkins, in the Regent's.park. The fete was announced to take place at an hour in the afternoon, but owing to the very u n f avoura b le state of the early hour very few persons arrived until four o'c'eck ; those who had taken tickets no doubt imagining that the festival would be post paned.theofwhistler. Although the ra i n a b a t e d, a nd the afternoon turned ou t exceed ingly fine, the attendan c e w a s not numerous, owing a pp aren tl y to t h e preva lence of this op i n i on. Th e b and of t h e 2d Life Guards played several admired ove r t ures to th e scanty audience. Other amusements w A er b e t e h x e ce c l l l e e v b e t r ciommitactoiollnastioonf was w hwhich songswere porfosbliirldestl: b not least a, served up under a spacious marquee in the grounds, under the special superintehdence of Mr. Bleeders of the London Tavern, who also pro. vided the wines. Mr. Curtis, the founder of the institution, took occa sion to armour .ce that all the tickets not used yesterday would-be avail able for the fete which is to be repeated this day ; and that all those pre sent yesterday would have the privilege of repeating their visit, and in troducing two friends, without any additional charge. Panes George of Cambridge, who was prevented attending yesterday by the unpropi tious weather, is expected to be present this day. JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.—The following Oc currence has recently excit:d touch interest in Vienna ;—" A young gentleman, hl. Le Baron de H—, a lieutenant of Hussars, of high family connections, had become desperately enamoured of the femme de cliambre of his mother. She was a young Sicilian, very beautiful, and well educated. He employed every means in his power to induce her to become his mistress; but not successful in this attempt, he at length offered her his hand and fortune. She still remained in. exorable, and would listen to none of his proposals, believing him not to be sincere in his professions of love. He swore solemnly that he would never break his marriage vow, and producing a poignard, de. Glared that he would plunge it into his heart rather than be unfaithful to her, if she would consent to become his wife. The vehemence of his declaration touched the heart of Eliza (such was her name), and she consented to become his Oife. The marriage took place in February, with every possible outward demonstration of re joicing, and the relatives of M. de although not approving of the marriage, did everything to celebrate the event with eclat. In the he. ginning of May the officer followed his regiment to Milan. His wife, who remained at Vienna, took means to have all his movements watched, and she soon learned that he had formed a connecion with a young widow, the Marquise de L—, and from that moment she re s&,ved upon a deadly - revenge. In the rage of her jealousy she at first determined to go to Milan for the purpose. She was contemplating this step, when her husband unexpectedly returned to Vienna with dis patches.. The instant he entered the house, maddened with rage and frantic with excited feelings of jealousy, she flew at him like a tiger, and plunged the fatal dagger by which he had sworn into his heart. The husl , autl fell watering in his blond, and was taken to the hospital, where he is recovering; the unhappy wife was given over to justice, anti is at present resigned to her situation, but not regretting her crime. STATE OF TRADE.—There was no change in the Manchester market yesterday. The demand both fur goods and yarn was very moderate, and previous prices were barely supported.—Man. cheater Guardian. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 4. KEEP V. ABBOT. This was an appeal from a decree of the Master of the Rolls. The bill was filed for the specific performance of an agree. merit by which the defendant, according to the allegation of the plaintiff, was blu td to convey to him a parcel of garde n ground, thirteen yards wide and eighteen yards deep, foe the erection of a Methodist chapel in the parish of Southwell. The defendant by his answer admitted the contract to s but denied that he intended to dispose of more than the garden itself would measure, and thst, being a livery stable keeper, he did not, nor could not, have intended to dispose of, nor did not contract to dispose of, the land in which he had placed a coachshcd, a manure place, and a pig-stye, these erections being necessary for the proper conduct of his ksi ness- The plaintiff produced evidence to rebut this allega tion of the defendant, and endeavoured to prove that the defendant did intend to include the ground covered by the buildings in the contract for the sale of the garden. The Master of the Rolls was of opinion that the plaintiff failed to make out a case for a specific performance, and gave the plaintiff the option of having his bill dismissed, or of taking the ground according to the defendant's reading of the con tract. The plaintiff refused the option, and the bill was dis missed with costs. Mr. WmitAm now appeared to support the appeal from this decree. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that, as the cr.se now stood, he must simply dismiss the appeal and with coats. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, all'Er 4. SUTTON V. SOUTHALL. Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE movecifO;;;linTi;ction to restrain the defendants, Southall and others, the Directors Gf the Birming ham Patent Iron Horse Shoe and Iron Tip and Heel Com pany, from continuing the business of the Company, en the ground of misconduct on the part of the Directors and a total failure of the object of the Company. His Honour refused the motion. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Juzr 4. ALLEN V. WRIGHT. This was an action for a malicious prosecution. The plain tiff, Mary Ann Allen, had lodged in the house of the defendant, a tradesman in the Waterloo-road, and was living with a mer chant, who assumed the name of Gordon, and that on the 19th of March last, she having previously left these lodgings, after ten o'clock at night, when she had retired to bed, the defendant brought a police officer to the house where she then lived, and gave her in custody upon a charge of felony for having stolen the feathers out of the bed in her room, which was the pro perty of the defendant. Thereupon the plaintiff was taken to the police station and confined in the felons' cell until the morning, when she was taken to Union-ball, and after the charge was preferred, discharged by the Magistrate. To recover compensation for that injury the present action was brought. The jury found a verdict for the plaintifF—Dainages, 51. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jura- 4. LOEII V. HAGUE. The plaintiff in this case is an engineer, residing near Dur. ham, and the defendant a person of the same profession in London. The complaint made by Mr. Losh was, that in 1837 the defendant infringed a patent obtained by the tiff for an improvement in the construction of wheels for car riages to be used on railroads. Proceedings having been in stituted in the Court of Chancery, an injunction was obtained, for the purpose of substantiating which, and of taking the opi nion of a Judge and Jury in a Court of common law, the pre sent action was brought. .The Jury gave their verdict for the defendant. IRELAND We latiily but pretty plainly intimatedour conviction yes terday, that if the 4th of Jzt) , were disgraced by no party processions, and the peace of the country happily should re main undisturbed in spite ofthe insidious incitem , mt to disorder and outrage, furnished by the princip it orb• to or the mat contented Orangemen, the Mail could certainly cLifn but little credit for an event which might have afforded some slight evidence perhaps of a less dangerous and rabid state of feeling amongst its insolent and ruffianly patrons. We have not heard that the peace of the country has suffsl-ed so much either in the degree or spread of Orange outrage as might have been apprehended—no lives, we believe, as in the good old times of the ascendancy, have been sacrificed to popular ignorance and party brutality. The law, how ever, has been boarded by the Orangemen in the North, offen sive badges have been insultingly exhibited, Catholic chapels have been wrecked, and—but for the wise precautions taken by Government, precautions which the Mail desig nated a "military invasion"—there would no doubt have been an effusion of blood. Information of these criminal acts, the inseparable concomitants of illegal Orange pro cessions, is supplied by our Dublin Correspondent, whose letter we subjoin : DUBLIN, JULY 3. —By letters received in town to-day, it appears that the Orangemen of Ulster have not scrupled to break the law, by walking in procession, and exhibiting off.m sive party badges, upon the Ist of July. In Monaghan, a body of one hundred Orangemen walked through the town in procession, while the Catholic inhabitants were coming from their place of worship, and would have returned in the even ing in the same fashion, only the resident stipendiary magis trate took out the military and police, and having read the Riot Act, forced the procession to separate. In Armagh they have been preparing sedulously for the occasion, by wrecking two Catholic chapels in different districts within the present week ; and in King's Court, County Cavan, so much fear cf a riot was entertained, that a police force was sent down from Dublin, under the command of Captain Williams, to preserve the public peace. I have just seen a letter from the Diamond, the locality of the famous batik, stating that upon Sunday the Orangemen had bonfires and a riotous assembly in the neighbourhood of the slaughter, when they conducted themcelves in a most out rageous manner. Happily no life was sacrificed, but the peace able people were put in the utmost dread and fear of their lives. A TITHE MARTYR—CURIOUS PROCEEDING,—.OII Saturday last toe people of Kildare made one of the most striking de monstrations upon the tithe question that the long and angry agitation of the grievance ever gave rise to. A respectable farmer of that county, named Maher, who had long resisted the payment of the impost, was, about a month ag o , comm i tte d to prison for a large arrear of tithes. Though in wealthy cir cumstances, he utterly refused to pay a shilling of it, and de clared his determination rather to die in his dungeon. His countrymen were proud of his firmness, but they would not have him full a needless sacrifice; and a fund was put in pro gress of collection for his release. In a very few days the whole amount of his tithes, more than 501 , was subscribed, and on Satnrd iy he was released and accompanied from the gaol to a public meeting, where a multitude of the most wealthy of the farmers of the country pledged themselves by the memory of his persecution never to pay ono shilling of tithe. The proceedings of the meeting fill several columns in the Dublin Morning Pa pers to-day, and are entirely composed of strong protests agdnst, or fierce denunciations of, the tithe system. Mr. Maher, on his release, handed 1001. to the Tithe De fence Fund of Kildare. The Tipperary Free Press of yesterday stetes that a great tithe meeting about to take place is that county, was post poned by reason of a letter written from London to the lead ing Catholic Clergy of Tipperary, promising that the Tithe Bill would undergo such alterations as would make it satisfac tory to the people. I greatly doubt that a satisfactory mea sure will be even introduced this Session. The most san guine cannot hope to see it pass into law. STATE OF TILE COUNTII.Y. —The Circuits are about to com mence immediately, and it is said in well-informed quarters that a remarkable diminution of crime will be found to have taken place. With the exception of the murder of Cooke, in Tipperary, and O'Keefe lately in the same county, there have been no cases out of the common breaches of the law which occur in any country. CASIILL.—There is now no candidate in the field for Cashel with the least hope of success but Dr. Stock, since Mr. Moore, who, it was supposed, would receive the support of Govern ment, has retired from the contest. A son of Mr.. Spring Rice, and two or three Barristers, and country gentlemen of no particular standing, are talked of as candidates, but they will not appear upon the polling day. THE WESTNIF.AT.I INVESTICIATION.—The investigation granted by Government to inquire into the conduct of Mr. Shell, J. P., upon the complaint of the Marquis of Westmeath, has terminatid. It will be recollected that Lord Westmeath attacked the Irish Government in Parliament—first, for having ap pointed Mr. Shell, and secondly, for not dismissing him upon the complaint of the Stipendiary Magistrate, and chief of con stabulary in his district. He stated, in support of his charge, that Mr. Sheil had been found in a common public-house, haranguing a mob during the election for Westmeath ; that he had been detected there, I think he said drinking with the rioters, by Major Rogan and Captain Declusian. During the course of the investigation the Marquis of Westmeath never never showed himself in Court, but Rowan and Declusian were examined, art! it Clearly appeared by their evi dence, that Mr. Sheil had not addressed the party in the public-house, had not drank with them, and only went there in his capacity of a magistrate, being accompanied by Mr. Fitzsimon, M. P. It also appeared that dining the electi on the conduct of Captain Declusian bad been strongly com plained of by the Liberal party, that a comp!aint against him bad been made to the Sheriff, and a report forwarded to Go vernmeot by Mr. Fitzsimon, M. P., charging him with some thing tantamount to partisanship. Upon the whol e th e en quiry has terminated to the entire satisfaction of' the Liberal party. It was for attacking the Marquis of Westrneath's speech in thi s case , that he took the action for libel against the Pilot Newspaper, which is still heading. A meeting of the Rev. Mr.- Maguire's friends took place yesterday at the Corn Exchange, to forwaid the collection of the fund fur a testimonial to him ; 800/. has been already subscribed. The Irish grocers, at a meeting yesterday, determined to send a deputation to London, to endeavour to prevent the law coming into operation, which would prevent them retailing spirits. THE CORONATION SUN. In Dublin and in all the provincial towns the Coronation was celebrated by illuminations, banquets, and ' public re joicings. Your Golden Sun has been among the most ad mired novelties to which the season gave birth. THE LAMBETH TRAGEDY.—The deepest sensa tion which the late tragedy has produced has been experienced by that class of men about town who happen to have sallow corn. plexiotss and black whiskers. Swarthy gentlemen have walked about as though on the verge of a precipice. You tru.y seen them casting an anxious sidelong look at cabdrivers and policemen, as appralsensi, a of beng identified by mistake. Foreigners have been religiously dumb, lest suspicion should attach to their accent. But one of them has been less fortunate than the rest. A most shocking and odious feature of this aTair, not less revolting than the murder itself, calls for esrecial mention. A gentleman whose ill fate it was to have black whiskers and a sallow complexion, and to be seen moreover in the neighbourhood of the very cigar-shop which the sus. pected Italian was reported to have was apprehended upon these and other grounds) on Saturday night, confined in a cell for about forty hours, and carried before a magistrate en the Monday, amidst " an immense concourse of spectators, each eager to catch a glinspze of the prisoner." He proved to be a:inusical practitioner at the Italian Opera-house. On being charged by the police-constable with exhibiting (to his thinking) a resemblance to the absentee, the magistrate declared that he detected no likeness at all; then it was that witnesses were called, who at once swore that he was not the person ! Why not have asked them the question on Sunday ? He .was of course released, " amidst the congratulations of his friends, and without a stain upon his character," and Mr. Inspector Haining does not appear to have been reprimanded for his abominable officiousness. It appears, therefore, that every swarthy and black-whiskered perambulator of . Piccadilly is liable to be apprehended, imprisoned, and carried Ito a police office (without the the little formality of being confronted with the witnesses trst) amid an immense concourse of spectators, each eager to catch a glimpse of a murderer! Now we must say, that although it is highly desirable that the assas,in should be discovered, it is much more important that - outrages like this should not become a police practice. We remember nothing more monstrous or more calculated to create among foreigners erroneous ideas of our boasted liberty. They will be apt to think, when they he;:r of eery house being his castle, that the necessity of his keeping within doors is implied in the maxim. The consequence of this arrest has been that many a swarthy cheek has been divested of its whisker—the parties forgetting, in their trepidation, that the very fact of s having is ~regnant with suspicion, and t hat the attempt at disguise may prejudice them when their respective trials come on.— Monthly Chronicle. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The Corcyron schooner, from the west coast of Africa, Captain John Richardson, on Tuesday, June 261 h, about one o'clock in the afternoon, was approaching the English coast, when about thirty miles from the Start Point, he disco vered a boat at a distance; supposing it tote a fishing-bo:It he bore away for it, with the intention of asking which way the land lay, when he perceived only a man in it, making signals with outstretched arms, for assistance, whom he took on board and brought to the London Docks. The poor fellow was overjoyed on getting on board, being exhausted for want of provisions and water. Ile proved to be a Frenchman, from a small town close to Cher bourg, on the French coast, who, having gone out fishing in company with another, they were blown off by a gust of wind on the p reviou s Sunday. The other man swam to the shore on the boat near ing a point of land. What makes the affair the more singular is, that the poor fellow did not know how to manage a boat, he being by trade a stonemason, and having accompanied the other for a little pastime and to procure some fish. The Captain was obliged to navigate the vessel alcvgside the boat with caution, as it was evident he did not understand putting the boat ta the ship ; and, as he could not speak English, the captain did not understand him, or even where he came from till his arrival here. SAXON LADIES.—A tourist,in Germany gives the fallowing description of the Saxon ladies :—" Ladies are models of in dustry ; whether at home or abroad, knitting and need'e work, no inter ruption. A lady going to a rout would think little of forgetting her fan, but could not spend half an hour without her implements of female industry. A man 'would be quite pardonable for doubting, on j en tering , whether he had not strayed int o a sc h oo l o f in. whether °' he w as no t expecte d to cheape ; stockings, instea d d:ufuc'dhterY 3 and aaldinrga'viningo small r talk. At Dresden it is carried ri far that even the theatre is not protected against stocking wires. I have at en a lady gravely lay down her work, wipe away the tears which sorrcws of Thcckla, in Wallenstein's death, had brought into her eyes, and Mune. diately resume her knitting. T HE WILMINGTON MURDER.—WC learn from the Manchester Guardian, that one of the prisoners kas been com nitted for trial, and that the four others have been discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN Yesteriay, John Henry Austen, a ruffianly-looking fellow, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Hcskins, charged with being concerned in the following daring robbery. A simple country girl, named Lucy Jackson, rrrived in London by the waggon, at Cross Keys, St. Jahn-street, Clerkenwell, on Saturday morning last, having brought with her her trunk, containing W. 13s. and her warring apparel ; when she was accosted by a procuress, residing near Sadler's Wells Theatre, who inveigled her to her house, under a pro mise to procure her d respectable situation ; when the pri soner, a notorious smasher and bully, was deputed to fetch her trunk from the coach-office, and she was robbed of the Whole property, and left destitute. Neville and two other women, named Chapman and Jones (a black), who had shared in the plunder, were apprehended, and yesterday the prisoner Austen was taken into custody, through the information of Ann Chapman, the sister of one of the prisoners, with whom he formerly cohabited. Ann Chapman was now sworn, when the prisoner said, in a gruff voice, " Please your Vurshup, she is jealous, and that's the reason of her nosing upon - me ; besides, she is a prostitu e, and her word's not be taken." Chapman—l am a married woman, and here is my certi ficate. Prisoner—Ab, as to that ere, its neither here nor there ; you knows that you are now living with a returned transport ; but never mind, you can only remand me. The prisoner was remanded until Monday next. MARLBORO UGH. STREET. A young man named Lrvy, with his upper lip bandaged and strapped together, charged two men with having committed a very brutal assault-upon him in Hyde Park during the fair. The circumstances are as follow :----Among the Coronation amusements in the Park an aerial ship was provided for these Cockney sailors who prefer the pleasures of a land voyage to the perils of a trip on real water. The complainant mounted the ladder for the purposes of taking a penny trip just at the moment when a drunken man had contrived to create a d:s turbance, by climbing up to the cross-beam, and the two de fendants, who were employed by the proprietors to nav;gwe the " aeril ship," by the help of a wheel, probably mis taking the complainant's intention, began to assault him. One of the defendants kicked him on the mouth and split his Fp in halves. The kick knocked the complainent to the ground, and while lying in this defenceless situation the other man jumped down and gave a second kick, which split his lip a second time. A rough-bearded, worn out man-of. war's-man, in the rem nants of a seaman's toggery, came forward, and making a sea leg, stood ready to give evidence. MAGISTRATE—WeI!, my man, you saw this land ship, 1 suppose? Sailor (with huge contempt)—Seed it ! yes, your honour, I did see it ; cutter-rigged fore and aft, with a cro -j oc k yard. The lubber ought to be keel-hauled as ever built sitch a thing. MAGISTRATE—Did you see the complainant receive a kick from any one? Sailor—l seed both kick him, one arter t'other. MAGISTRATE—On which side of the ship did the complainant fall ? Sailor —Starboard side, your honour. MAGISTRATE-1 suppose you mean on that side where the ladder is placed ? Sailor—Yes, your honour; he was on the gangway when he got the first kick, and then down he went plumpendickler on the ground starn uppermost. First prisoner—Vy your the werry cove wot cotched me a precious whop under my ear wot knocked me bang into Wessel. Second prisoner —And your the von as guv'd me sitch a gallus kick here (placing his hand on the spot), at I aint been able to sot down comfortable ever since. MAGIsmATE—The prisoners both charge you with having assaulted them, witness. Sailor (bitching up his trousers)—l aint going for to tell no lie about this here consarn. I seed both these wagabonds take an unmanly adwantage of that ere young man, and I could nct stand it, so I naterally shoves forrad and lends 'cm a rum un a piece. The prisoners having signified their willingness to make compensation, the Magistrate allowed the parties to retire. The comp!nino.nt having been satisfied, the prisoners were liberated. MARYL EB ONE. Yesterday Robert England, driver of the hackney-coach No. 1,206, appeared on a summons obtained against him by the Marquis of Blandford, for refusing to convey him as a fare, be being at the time disengagwl. The Marquis, about two o'clock on Friday morning, came out of Cumberland-gate, Hyde-park, having been looking at the fireworks, when he observed a number of hackney-coaches and cabs standing unbired along the side of the curb stone; he called defendant, who said he was engaged, but a gentleman intimating to him that that was only said thinking le would offer a good price, he insisted upon being conveyed, üben the defendant asked him -.here he was going to, and on beii,g told near Westininst.n. Bridge, he said Le could not take he was engaged, and then, at the top of his voice, bawls out, " You're .t nice cove, I don't think," " Does y our mot h er know you're out," and other slang phrases. He (the Marquis) then took his number, and went away. Defendant was fined 40s. and costs. SHAKSPEARE AND. Ills FRIENDS, THE NEW HISTORICAL RomANcn.--We have been better pleased with this work than with any we have met with for a long time. The ground upon which the author has ventured is fearfully full of difficulties, but he has threaded his way with considerable skill. Shakspearc, Burbage, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Burghley, Eliza. beth, are brought in vivid portraiture before us; whilst the more direct creations of the author's imagination are introduced with great abilit y. There are few scenes, even in Scott, more _owerful than the one, be tween the miser, Gregory Vellum, and hi ould-be murderers; whd t, for practical fun and reckless o, we would introduce Harry ring, as a capital specimen of , right mischievous, but right brave youngster. The adventures of S,r Walter Raleigh are skilfully inter woven with the plot. " ShAspeare aad his Frieuds" appear before us in very truth ; the generous disposition, ready wit, and noble beating of the Poet, being pictured with rare success.— Age. The New Novel liv. the " Desennuyee," entitled " The Woman of the World," is just published. The former produc tioa of this Authoress contaiiird one of the most bri'llaut pictures ever exhibited of the fashionable world. The present volumes pout tray the fashionable circles of the year 1835. Among the Dramatis Personce will be found the Duke and Duchvr . socHavtriog, a Cabi n et Minister his WO! ! the Duchess of 4trinholton, r. fwhionable Aspasia ; Count Flasgr ski, a Foi cign Exquisite; Lord Carpynter, n. Political Prig; Lord Wexford, a distinguished gourmand ; with Ambassadors, At taches, Dowagers, and Danndies without end. The Paris papers of Monday announce the existence of a pestilential disease at Sabre £t. Gery, Belgium, and at Beaumont and Consorle, in France. '1 he symptoms occasioned fears that the malady war the black fever. Its progress was ra:,;(1, and in the places just mentioned it had already de6matcd the population. SWI TZER L A ND.—The Helvetic of the 29tth states, that on the 221 the Federal Commissioners had c•ncluded an armistice with the Government of Schweitz. On the 25th time Federal troops were disbanded, and Colonel Zimmerli, th.e:r Commander, wa4 authorized to return to Berne. The 'Grand Counzil of Zurich offered its mediation, which was accevled by the Vorcrt. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Earl Fitzwilliam presented on Monday n:gbt, in the Floos,:. of Lords, the petitions (of which Le had given no tice) for a repeal of the Corr.-laws. The Noble Lord, a; a matter of course, prefaced their, presentation w:th some of his wed worn common-places on tl e sitiket. These were speed 4 disposed of by Lord Stanhope, and by sera4 other Noble Lords, who are rot too " philosophical " to abandon the cause of native industry ! Some of the free trad•-: journals have tab-en up the matter with considerable carnestness ; and have eagerly impugned the views•wh'eh he diforning Herald is stated to hold in common with Lord Stanhope ! As we are not ashamed to stand up in defence of the British farmer, and of the whole body of British producers, so, we are not anxious to shrink from any discuzsion of principles so momentous os those which are involved in this question of the Corn-laws. An Even ing Contemporary (The Sun) thus approaches the subject, ast night : " One of the arguments urged against the repeal of the Corn-laws in the columns of the Herald, and echoed by Lord Stanhope in Parliament is, th at i t would augment the power cif the capitalist, enable him to beat down wages, and make the labourer still more a slave than at present to capital. we look on that as a complete fallacy, because in the long run food, clothing, and lodging constitute the actual payment of wages. The money passes from hand to hand, and the prin.e necessaries of life which the labourer purchases are his real wages. Now, the supposition of those who contend,for the retention of the Corn-laws i; that to abolish them more food • from all quarters of the world would be offered to oar people —that is snore real wages—and there being more real wages to divide amongst the labourers, :t is plain that the share - of each sn.in would be increased. In other words the total abolition of the Cora-laWs would not, as Lord Stanhope and the Herald assert, lower wages and increase the power of the capitalist. It would raise wages and diminish that power relatively to - the labourer, by introducing more competition amongst the owners of toed—the real money in which wages are paid —to eiipose of it." In this passage, The Su;z evidently misunderstands, or misrepresents, the arguments of its own economical party, on the subject of the Corn-laws. The advocates onhe repeal of the Corn-law state, as their strongest argument, the fact, that the English Corn-laws create two prices of labour in manufacturing Europe. But two prices of labour (they urge) create two market prices for commodities of the same description ; and this distinction of price must, necessarily, make itself felt at the expense of the producers of the dearer goods. British manufacturers are in the condition of men, compelled to supply the general markets of the world with commodities produced under the disad vantage of high-priced labour. But the Corn-laws are the cause why British labour is higher priced than the labour of the Continent. In the greater cheapness of the labour which they employ, continental manufacturers have (argue our free traders) a prodigious advantage over their British competitors —au advantage, against which the manufacturers of this country find it, every year, more difficult to struggle. " Give us, therefore," exclaim the free traders, "give us fair play. Reduce the price of English labour by reducing the price of Eng lish food. Let there be but one price of labour throughout Europe, since all Europe is now but one great market.' Such is the argument of free trade economists of the first class ; but such is not the argument of the writer in The Sun. According to this latter authority, a repeal of the Corn Laws is to be desired, because, by such a movement, " more flied front all quarters of the world would be offered to our people—that is, more real wages —and there being more real wages to divide amongst the labourers, it is plain that the share qf each man would be increased." The position, however, is mere heresy —a palpable wandering from the pure faith of the great fathers of political economy. These worthies urge many reasons, indeed, why our labourers should be fed with cheap corn—but they are mute as to the existence of any mo ral necessity for increasing the quantity of cheap corn to be divided amongst our labourers. They argue with exceeding earnestness in favour of their project for equalising the price of wheat all over Europe ; —but they have not laid it down, as being indispensable to the eternal fitness of things, that, of the wheat so equalised in price, a larger portion should come to the share of the British labourer, than to the share of the labourer in Bel gium or Germany ! To prove that such an increase in the amount of " real" wages (to borrow our Contemporary's phrase) is not amongst the ends contemplated by the great patrons of free trade, it may be sufficient to recall to mind the complaints which they urge against the present system. Under the present system, labour (they allege) is too dear ; —and therefore they demand food at the continental price, in order that they may obtain labour at the same price as their continental competitors do ! But, supposing the Corn Laws were repealed, and the price of food in Eng land, by consequence, reduced to the continental level, the English manufacturer would, after all, on his own showing, have gained nothing, if the quantity of cheap ened food doled out to the English labourer should happen to exceed the quantity allotted to the labourer in other countries. Quantity, in short, would after the repeal of the Corn-laws, become as important an element. in the manufacturers' calculations, as price is, under the existing system. To allege, therefore, as The Sun does, that, in consequence of a repeal of the Corn-laws, "each laboUrer's share of real wages, or food, would be increased," is, sim ply, to contradict the whole scope and tendency of orthodox ;free-trade reasoning on the question ! It is difficult, in deed, to refrain from smiling, when we bear in mind the fierce denunciations of the Coin-laws, which are periodically poured forth by the free traders, on the ground that these laws make English wages too high for the security of English manufacturers—and then turn to the assertion of The Sun, that a repeal of the " Corn-laws would raise wages and diminish the capitalists power, relatively to the labourer, by introducing . more competition amongst the owners of food—the real money in which wages are paid —to dispose of it." The leading econo mists, in short, clamour for a roped of the Corn-laws, on the pound that English wages are too high. The writer in The Sun joins in the cry for repeal, but his reason is, that by a repeal of the Corn-laws, wages would be raisod! Our Evening Contcmrorary appears, however, to r ntcrtain some misgivings as to the soundness of his argu ment on this paint—so he proceeds to shift his ground, and to attack native industry in another quarter! "6 But supposing the arguments of the advocates of a ge neral plunder, by means of. the Corn-law, be correct, there is one great difference between the power and opulence of the, capitalist and the power and opulence of the landlord, which our contemporary the Herald and Earl Stanhope overlook. So far as the Corn-laws are concerned, the wealth of the landlord is maintained by a direct tax on the food of the people, but there is no such law to maintain the grofit of ca pital. Rent is paid by taxation ; profit is the result of free bargain and sale in the common markets of the world. There is no law to enhance the rate of profit; the Ccrn.law is ex pressly intended to increase rent." If our Corn-laws had no other effect than " to increase rent," we might not, perhaps, be found so eager as we are to defend their continuance. It is because the protection of British agriculture involves the protection of British in- dustry in every shape, th a t we res i s t every attempt to de prive British agriculture of its only remaining defence ! True, indeed, the landed aristocracy of England is inte— n•sted in the maintenance of the Corn-laws ; but we have yet to learn the grounds cn which the ißt.'rests of that body are to be held less sacred than the interests of schemers, wl.we projects, if successful, must involve the utter debasement of native producers of every kind ! But • it is urged in disparagement of the Corn-laws, that they ‘• increase milt ;" whilst no law, we are told, exists, " to tnhance the rate qf pr.:fits." There exist many laws to enhance the value of money—and whatever enhances the v.,lue of money adds direct ; , and of neceseity, to tie value • of profit s. I f the legal into rtst on one hundrt d pounds be Eve tounds,and the•rate of r rofit in tradc fifteen ; and if,Ly an Act of legislation, cne hundrt d pounds shall acquire the value which two hundred pounds possessed previous to the .pass ing of th,,t Act, the five pounds of interest, and the fillet n founds of profit acquire, necessarily, the values, relatively, of ten and of thir:y pounds! Now the currency Act of 1319 incr:ased, to a searcdy cab u'ahle ext.: nt,the value of money in this country;—and by increasing the value of money, "enhanced the rate of prvfts." We are living, at mom'-nt, under the withering influtnees of that Act, as c qldnly as we are living under the itiluences of the Corn- I ws :—Lay, the Corn-laws—itrperfcet as they are—fur nish the only protectifn, which native industry now pos s:•sses : . ga'nst the desttuefive tendencies of the Currency ili:1 of 1819, arid of other measures framed in a similar - ..... Fp ' r:t.. The Currency Bill of 181 operates, at every mo ment, to chef:Fen labour, and •all tl s products of labour. Ti 2 Currency Bill of 18W is the great title deed of our i llurs and aunu:tants—the instrument of mortgage ‘‘..1.i.11 they hold ever native Lhottr, and all its creations. If it were not for the operation of the Corn-laws, the la b, firers of England would be, at this moment, the most wretched str:S in the world. The Corn laws widen the field for native industry, by seeming British agriculture bum extinction. The Corn-laws alone preserve a home tea-ket for capital and labour—and operate at the s,.:ne time, to the hroitath n of the dest ruct i ve sp i E i t of manuf.ctu:i- g gambling—that spirit, ff:hi e l f h as cause d e nuor,s frightful extent of misery and rum •throughout the world, than loadcd dice and thimble-riagi ng in all its varie ties have f ver effected. The existence of the Corn-laws is tl,e only barrier which nowremains ag a i ns t th e un i versa l a,cendanny of free-trade pr;neip;( s. These principles have, ,1,-eads, reduced seve n h un d re d t h ousand hand-loom f wca ters, from a state of comfort to destitution in its most f + fi g ht titl shapes ; and the fate, uhich has already overtaken tic 'retort mate artisans, is in store for every other class of British labourers, the moment the Corn-lair's shall be re poaled I—:teaning Herald. We are plea , rd to find tFat mast useful and consistent hbetal, Mr. T. Dunnoatbe, the,Member for Finsbury, who has alrcaly done go)d se:lice-At) the p:pu'ar cause by his . ii